There is no good or bad but thinking makes it so,Horatio
Shakespeare
Ever made any mistakes?
I didn’t think so. I expect nothing less from my readers.
Faultless human beings.
Myself,however, I am made entirely out of mistakes.
How I made them mine
Over a long period of time, I learned to make them mine.
Whenever I make one I say ‘hoisted’ or my wife often beats me to the punchline.
It comes from the Shakespeare quote :
Hoist with his own petard; and ’t shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon. O, ’tis most sweet
When in one line two crafts directly meet.
A petard is a small bomb. So in the scene in Hamlet the guy is hoisted or blown up by his own device. So the phrase is used usually used when pointing out the error of someone else’s mistake.
I use it to highlight my own mistakes.
I shortened it to ‘hoisted’ as it saves a lot of time.
That way no-one can play the hoisted card at me and I can make as many mistakes as I want and nobody can do anything about it.
Hoisted
It’s a nice way of admitting a mistake,moving on.
Most of all avoiding that awful egoistical thing, you often have to do in workplaces around the world – avoid admitting mistakes at all cost.
I have also heard but can’t bring myself to believe that you’re only supposed to make the same mistakes once.
Ridiculous right?
I love making the same mistakes.
It’s funny to start with, it gets funnier – look at this idiot making the same mistakes.
Then it stops being funny – I keep making the mistakes.
Then,for some reason, it gets funny again.
I think I have cornered the market on the humour of desperation.
This is another go at 1liner weds you can read the other posts at the link.
I made a mistake once. I started following this blogging person called…….OOPS!
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Lol
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We had various names for it in writing groups. Invariably, when correcting someone’s spelling or grammar, one was guaranteed to make an error in the post. This was especially true if you were doing it to be hostile.
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Always nice when that happens. I try to remember when I make a mistake , it becomes the new ‘thing’ and call it by the mistaken name forever after.
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Personally I think you should bring back the petard….
It rolls off the tongue so beautifully.
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It’s probably in the garage. Never going to find it. I’m still looking for that thing I was looking for, I can’t remember what it is but I know it was something.
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Perhaps you’re not hoisting hard enough.
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I make plenty of mistakes. Which leads me to believe I am here to be comic relief for others. 🙂
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Does that mean I can retire?
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Of course not! The world needs as much comic relief as it can get! If one cannot be a good example then one must be a cautionary tale! 😀
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Well I’ll keep pressing on then…
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Many, many mistakes here. But now I’ve got ‘hoisted’ and life is complete.
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I haven’t said it for a while… Must be due a run of mistakes
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I quoted Hamlet just yesterday to a coworker: “I must be cruel, only to be kind; and, so bad begins and worse remains behind”
I love those couplets at the end of each act…
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Does that sort of stuff go well? Raised eyebrows and 2 steps back…
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Definitely not! When I quote Shakespeare, there is usually a very long pause, followed by the obligatory changing of the subject.
And, don’t even try to explain the first line to the Romeo and Juliet balcony scene…
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Hah changing of the subject would be right. That would make me do it all the more! I forget now but I like the not so well remembered lines… Fardels bear… Etc
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I had a fardels bear when I was a kid… it was so heavy I wanted to kill myself…
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Making mistakes is: 🎶Only Human…of flesh & blood we’re made🎶 Try to acknowledge it and move on. 😁
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